Song Of The Day: Jan. 24, 2018

We briefly interrupt Mike Dinsmore Week to bring you a song that, I hope, Mike Dinsmore would embrace and endorse.  The South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela ('Grazing In The Grass')…

This is why I hate the Democratic Party

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The Party is a DC based fundraising scam. This article will make you puke. Literally. Have a bucket at the ready.
James Thompson, who lost a close special election in Kansas and is again running for the Wichita seat in 2018, said the DCCC is specific about why it wants candidates to raise money. “They want you to spend a certain amount of money on consultants, and it’s their list of consultants you have to choose from,” he said. Those consultants tend to be DCCC veterans. A memo the party committee sent to candidates in December lays out some of the demands the DCCC made around spending.

WARNING-THERE IS NO SURPLUS

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John Carney views Corporate Welfare as a magic bullet that will someday rain economic benefits on the state...eventually....if we are patient.... trust our corporate overlords...if we give them enough...and are worthy supplicants. It is pure bullshit of course. John Kowalko has something to say on the topic.

Coons on Morning Joe to Delaware Dems “Go f&ck yourself”

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Kasey Hunt MSNBC: "Activists were on a call yesterday and some of them expressed anger with Amy Klobuchar...because they feel she betrayed progressive values and talked about potentially primarying her and said that this could spread across the map. Do you think Democrats are facing a potential insurrection like the one Republicans faced in 2010?" Coons: "...I'll say to Democrats, if you want to lose a guaranteed safe seat, have the kind of senseless devisive primary that happened here in Delaware..."
I call bullshit. The Dem primary in Delaware is the election. If Coons or Carper is knocked off, all we'll get is a Democrat that actually represents the interests of his/her constituents.